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• Literatures, like trees and plants, are born of a land and in it flourish and die. But literatures, also like plants, may be carried abroad to take root in a foreign soil.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • May
  • Die
  • Trees

• New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.

  

  Barbara Cook
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Eyes
  • Find
  • Face

• I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Trying
  • Book

• That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.

  

  Adam McKay
  • You
  • See
  • Go

• My parents could not be more Italian.

  

  Edoardo Ponti
  • Parents
  • More
  • Italian

• What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.

  

  Laura Moser
  • School
  • American
  • Religion

• The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • See
  • Safety
  • Research

• I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Myself
  • Player
  • Never

• Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Writing
  • Independent
  • Speaking

• I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Find
  • Same
  • Loyalty

• I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Artist

• The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness - even though polished manners and a gracious presence may be absent - will be an elevating influence wherever he goes.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • May
  • Power
  • Man

• Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Real
  • Money
  • Inside

• Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Heart
  • Home
  • Win

• To put it bluntly, there isn't one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore's success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism and socialism. All theories are partial; reality is complex.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Success
  • Reality
  • Single

• I'm really just a normal person.

  

  Vanna White
  • Person
  • Just
  • Normal

• I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Way
  • Passion

• If we do not control our minds with our Buddha nature, do not practice seriously, are not honest to ourselves and do not examine our behaviors strictly, we will definitely be possessed by Maya. Being possessed does not necessary mean that we become delirious or our faces become horribly distorted. When we do not walk on the right path, we will be walking on Maya's path.

  

  Ching Hai
  • Mind
  • Mean
  • Spiritual

• For forty years, I've worn the same Azzaro Uomo fragrance.

  

  Brunello Cucinelli

• There's always so much more that can be conveyed on screen visually in the expressions of people's faces, in their bodies, in their body language. And also with sound design, with music.

  

  Lynn Shelton
  • People
  • Music
  • Design

• We know that there are people in our nation, black people, who are systematically being disenfranchised in a number of spheres in our lives.

  

  Opal Tometi
  • People
  • Black

• to be black

  

  Haki R. Madhubuti
  • Black
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